Trisha Goddard is best known for her popular morning talk show where she interviewed many people in crisis, but her own story is just as heartrending as that of her guests.

The 60-year-old has battled through breast cancer, depression and drug abuse - and come out the other side healthier than she’s ever been.

She’s now celebrating ten years cancer free and says she doesn’t like to think about the possibility of remission.

“I’m a decade in the clear now but who knows what will happen in the future?” she told RSVP Live. “I live in the now.

Trisha Goddard

“The best thing you can do is adopt the healthiest possible lifestyle you can, keep active and I guess pray, if you’re into praying.

“Death isn’t something I dwell on. What will be will be.”

She said dealing with cancer was even more difficult as she had to do it in the public eye.

“I still had to do my show,” she went on. “I co-owned the company making it, with 80 full-time employees.

“They all had mortgages and lives, we had to keep going.”

Her diagnosis was even leaked to the media before she had a chance to break the news to her loved ones.

She said: “When I was first diagnosed I was in a state of shock. I was diagnosed one day and then the very next morning I had to go to the hospital to have more tests and somebody took a photograph of me.

“It got to the press before I had even managed to tell my family. I associate the word ‘anger’ with that whole time.”

The British star, who loves to stay active, said running helped her deal with the physical and mental issues brought on by the disease.

“I ran every day,” she went on. “It was a stagger at first, I was literally crawling. Then I got to the point where I could jog.

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“That helped me enormously - it was my coping mechanism, and it also reduced the number of drugs I was on because I didn’t need drugs to ward off osteoporosis or beta blockers or anything like that.

“And I was lucky enough to be in therapy, where I could discuss all these things that come with a life-threatening illness - you tend to get angry at the petty, you want unfinished business dealt with and you ask some hard questions of yourself and your relationships.”

Now Trisha runs at least 7k a day and loves skiing, rollerblading and paddleboarding. Is life at 60 what she thought it would be?

“Not at all! I met Maye Musk, Elon Musk’s mother, on a plane the other day and she’s in her 70s and got her second wind of her modelling career.

“I look at women like her and Madonna or the designer Betsy Johnson, who are full of energy, and I ask ‘why not?’ rather than ‘why?’

“I don’t like when people say ‘That’s impossible’.”

Trisha spoke to RSVP Live at the launch of FutureProofing Healthcare: The Sustainability Index, which highlights the urgent need for investment in the digitisation of healthcare to ensure sustainable healthcare systems for patients in the future.

She added: "I am delighted to be involved in launching this Index and have a special interest in the focus on breast cancer given my personal experience as a survivor.

"Living with breast cancer and through its aftermath can be incredibly frightening and lonely, so an initiative like this is truly important as it allows patients and their families to access solid information and share best practice and experiences with people in a similar situation across multiple countries."